mariners

I am a bit surprised to read this on the Mariner's home page. The stuff about Jojima is particularly interesting . . .

Yuni makes the Onion.

Quoted: Betancourt said of McLaren and not Castro. "He calls team meetings, but he's just doing them to make it seem like he's doing a good job managing. For Christ's sake, he starts Miguel Cairo at first base sometimes.

I agree. We need a GM who a) understands stats/sabermetrics and b) knows how to use these to make decisions given a budget (of $117M in the M's case). This is how baseball works nowadays. If we had such a GM, we wouldn't have signed Washburn and Silva to long term contracts.

Quoted: Whoever comes in cannot continue to suggest in public that the Mariners have one of the top defenses in baseball. They don't. There are too many stats out there suggesting they don't. A new GM has to be able to look at those stats, know what they mean and proceed accordingly. We've all seen what a great defense looks like. And while I didn't think Seattle's defense would make or break this team's playoff chances, you'd never catch me -- in public or private -- calling it one of the top units in the AL.

+1! +1!

It was worth this season to get the house clean ... the bloggers win again.

Sadly, I actually wanted Washburn to get lit up tonight for blaming his poor pitching performances on Kenji. He started this game with Burke instead and has <sarcasm>only</sarcasm> given up 8 runs in 2 ⅓ innings. UPDATE: Make that 9 runs in 2 1/3 innings.

Quoted: Jarrod Washburn sucks. He’s a replacement level starting pitcher, not much better than guys sitting in Triple-A riding buses from Toledo to Durham. Jarrod Washburn doesn’t like pitching to Kenji Johjima, who the team is committed to as their starting catcher through 2011. A real manager, one with some semblance of authority and a willingness to do whats best for his team’s record, would tell the replacement level starting pitcher to learn how to like throwing to Kenji or sit in the bullpen and not pitch.

The upside of this is that I am only following maybe 1/5 of the games now....which means I have time to do other stuff.

Quoted: We’re over a quarter done with the year now, and the team is 15-26, the worst team in the majors.

Anxious to see if Clement sees any time behind the dish.

If J.J. is not 100%, this season is over.

Quoted: J.J.'s clearly not healthy. Fuck this season.
I even thought this just felt like a win. I smiled knowingly when Richie hit it out in the 10th. I had felt confident the entire later innings. I was confident with J.J. I was sure he was going to come up and put the fears instilled in that Oakland game to rest. And for one batter he did. Kudos to Batista, Rhodes, Morrow, Richie and Ichiro.